Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Thizz Entertainment is a San Francisco Bay Area-based, independent record label, started as Romp Records in 1996 by rapper Mac Dre. When Dre moved to Sacramento in 1999, he changed the label's name to Thizz Entertainment to avoid implying a connection to the Romper Room Gang. Dre thought the name Thizz perfectly expressed how it felt when you were high on ecstasy which was becoming popular in the Bay Area hip hop scene.When, on November 1, 2004, Mac Dre was shot and killed by an unknown assailant after a performance in Kansas City, Missouri, Dre's business partners Miami tha Most and Curtis \"Kilo Curt\" Nelson took over the label, and added J-Diggs (Jamal Diggs), also Mac Mall as co-owner. The label's base of operations was then moved back to the Bay Area or in Andrew's house as part of NSF."@en }
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- Thizz_Entertainment abstract "Thizz Entertainment is a San Francisco Bay Area-based, independent record label, started as Romp Records in 1996 by rapper Mac Dre. When Dre moved to Sacramento in 1999, he changed the label's name to Thizz Entertainment to avoid implying a connection to the Romper Room Gang. Dre thought the name Thizz perfectly expressed how it felt when you were high on ecstasy which was becoming popular in the Bay Area hip hop scene.When, on November 1, 2004, Mac Dre was shot and killed by an unknown assailant after a performance in Kansas City, Missouri, Dre's business partners Miami tha Most and Curtis \"Kilo Curt\" Nelson took over the label, and added J-Diggs (Jamal Diggs), also Mac Mall as co-owner. The label's base of operations was then moved back to the Bay Area or in Andrew's house as part of NSF.".